Chałupy ( csb, Chalëpë or Chałëpë, german: Ceynowa or Ziegenhagen) is a

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and a

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with conditions favorable for

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and

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, in Gmina Władysławowo. It is situated between Władysławowo and

Kuźnica Kuźnica is a Polish toponym meaning '' Hammer mill'', it may refer to: * Kuźnica, Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland), a district of the seaside town of Jastarnia :*Kuźnica railway station *Kuźnica, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-cen ...

on the

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on the southern

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Puck County __NOTOC__ Puck County ( pl, powiat pucki, csb, pùcczi pòwiat) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the Baltic coast. The ''powiat'' of this name existed in the his ...

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, northern Poland. Its population in 2009 was 376. In 1836 the village was the site of one of the last, if not the last, lynchings related to accusations of sorcery, when a widow Krystyna Ceynowa was killed by a mob after being accused of being a witch. In 1939 the village saw some fighting during the

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. The Germans captured it on 25 September, and around the same time, in its vicinity, Polish military engineers detonated

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warheads, temporarily transforming the Peninsula's far end into an island. Before 1 January 2015, Chałupy was part of the town of Władysławowo. Toward the last years of communist rule in Poland the locality became famous as the site of a government-legal nudist beach.

Gallery

File:Chalupy plaza.jpg, Beach in Chałupy File:Morze Baltyckie Chalupy.jpg File:Chałupy train station.jpg, Chałupy train station File:WK15 Chałupy (2) Travelarz.jpg File:Chałëpë - kòscół.JPG, Church in Chałupy

References

External links

www.chalupy.pl
- Official website
www.google/maps/lemonpark
- Lemon Park Władysławowo on

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Puck County Neighbourhoods in Poland {{Pomeranian-geo-stub